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Acton Institute's Educational Choice Page :: - Proposing reform through morality in education, parental responsibility, and free market education.

Alliance for Excellent Education :: - Advocates for at-risk middle and high school students by promoting increased education funding and high school reform to help make every child a graduate.

Alternative Education, San Jose State University :: - Materials and activities, instructional strategies, interventions, and educational materials appropriate for teachers of youth in alternative or high-risk educational settings.

American Society for Ethics in Education :: - Dedicated to exposing corruption and illegal practices in public schools. ASEE also serves as a forum to uncover unethical practices by unions.

Articles by Larry Phillips :: - Various articles on education and education reform, including the standards movement, school based management, and school councils.

The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement :: - Created to improve the national dissemination of information on comprehensive school reform.

Center For Leadership In School Reform :: - Committed to assisting school districts in building the capacity needed to support change at the school and classroom levels.

Center for Public School Renewal :: - Provides information on how more educational freedom-of teachers to teach, parents to choose, and the public to know- will improve public schools.

Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) :: - Works to create and sustain equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools and to make such schools the norm of American public education.

Current Issues In Public Education :: - A Canadian site dedicated to providing information, opinion and research related to public education reform issues. Maintained by British Columbia School Trustee Katherine Wagner.

DEEP - Democracy Ethics & Educational Principles :: - Resources in Character Education, Service Learning, Citizenship Education, and Educational Reform from an educational nonprofit organization.

Edaction :: - PAC which works to ensure future Americans receive a broad liberal arts education. Opposes control of education by state and federal governments.

Education Benchmarks :: - Seeks to give citizens the information they need to understand the progress of public education reform in Massachusetts. Find out about your local schools, compare the performance of different school systems, track progress over time, and learn about Massachusetts education reform efforts over the years.

EDUTRUE: Education Reform From the Top Down :: - Offering different perspectives on education reform issues, including original essays, quotations, relevant links, and suggestions for student-driven reform.

Equal Child Abuse :: - An expose of how fraudulent Supreme Court rulings have inflicted massive damage on our public education system.

Good Schools :: - Presentation of issues facing parents, taxpayers and teachers in reforming schools in the twenty-first century. Content heavily discusses Darwinism being taught in US public schools.

Improve-Education.org :: - Essays by novelist/educator Bruce Price on education, language, and cultural issues.

Is It Good for the Kids? :: - A monthly column by ASCD Executive Director Gene R. Carter, which addresses timely educational issues.

The Lancasterian Monitorial System of Education :: - Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838) led a movement to establish schools that used what he called the Monitorial System, in which more advanced students taught less advanced ones.

LEARN :: - What citizens need to know about education reform, school to work, early childhood education, and the restructuring of America.

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning :: - Organization advocating standards-based school improvement programs. Includes news, issues information, research findings and curriculum materials.

MiddleWeb: Exploring Middle School Reform :: - Links, resources, and original reporting for middle school teachers, parents, and others interested in raising student achievement and reforming middle grades education. Weekly diaries reveal the real work of middle grades teachers.

National Association for Prevention of Teacher Abuse :: - Presents information and documents teacher abuse in the public schools across the US with the intent to force reform. Details actual experiences of abused teachers.

National Center for Education Information :: - An authoritative source of information about alternative teacher preparation and certification in the United States.

National Center for Exploited and Abused Teachers :: - Describing how difficult a teacher's job is today. Intervening variables impede progress to higher scores and a better prepared citizenry.

National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching :: - NCREST supports restructuring efforts by documenting successful initiatives, creating reform networks to share new research findings with practitioners, and linking policy to practice. Teachers College, Columbia University.

Organization for Quality Education :: - A group of Canadian parents, teachers, trustees, ratepayers and business people who are dedicated to reforming elementary and secondary education in the Province of Ontario. Also a good example of how a reform group should be formed.

Partnership for Successful Schools :: - Independent, nonpartisan organization providing programs and strategies which focus community and employer energy on school improvement efforts. Includes a list of the board of directors, descriptions of programs, and ways to get involved. Located in Lexington.

Politics in Education and at Work :: - An article calling for political involvement to reform US education to better prepare workers for technical vocations.

The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence :: - An independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization of Kentucky parents and citizens working to improve education in the Commonwealth at all levels.

Project Appleseed :: - A non-profit national campaign to improve public schools by increasing and organizing parental involvement in all 15,000 public school districts in the United States of America.

Public Education Network :: - A citizen's gateway to the world of public school reform and local education funds.

Public Schools Today :: - Original articles regarding the state of education, and resources to aid in further study of education issues.

Redefining Education :: - The world has changed in the 50+ years since the foundations of our educational system were established. Our system of education has not evolved adequately. We need to redefine society's expectations and needs so we can redesign our educational system.

Save Our Schools, Inc. :: - A non-profit organization that provides educational tools to public schools so children may achieve their full potential.

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation :: - Supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform, as well as significant education reform projects in Dayton, Ohio and vicinity.

Thomas B. Fordham Institute :: - Supports national research, publications, and projects in elementary and secondary education reform, as well as education reform projects in Dayton Ohio.

Truth, Lies, Rumors and Rumbles :: - Putting the "public" into Public Education for the Southern Regional School District.

Grownup Training - Forbes.com :: - Essay advocating that students should spend two years after high school getting some 'training' on how to behave and think like a grown up before going to college. This would enable them to know why they want to go to college, how lucky they are to be in college, and what they want to be 'when they grow up.' (April, 2006)

NPR : Testing Scandal in Texas Schools :: - Houston schools have been implicated in a cheating scandal after test scores in some Texas school districts made suspicious leaps. An inspector general is investigating at least 23 schools. Questions arose in 2004 after The Dallas Morning News found strong evidence that educators were helping students cheat at nearly 400 schools statewide. [5:12 streaming audio broadcast] (March 21, 2005)

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